At the recently completed Byte CII World Championship in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Singapore sailors took the top three positions with Darren Choy the new 2009 World Champion.

Singapore took all them major prizes at the recent Byte CII World Championship held in Canada, sending an ominous message ahead of next year's Youth Olympic Games (YOG), where the Byte CII will be used as equipment in the One Person Dinghy Boys and One Person Dinghy Girls events. All three of the Singapore medal winners are under 16 and will be eligible for the YOG next year (which is open to 15-16 year olds).

Darren Choy sailed an incredibly consistent series in tremendously varying conditions without winning any of the 14 races. His average point score per race, (counting his two drops!) was a mere four, with five seconds, four thirds, a fourth, a sixth and a seventh! Terrence Choo of Singapore was second overall, winning three races but not quite able to match Choy's consistency. Chai Xun of Singapore completed the podium in third overall, beating out Jon Emmett, the defending champion, for third place by one point. Emmett, also recent UK Laser Radial Open winner, was fourth with six wins but still finished 25 points behind Choy.

First female and fifth overall was another Singapore sailor, Najwa Jumali, who put in particularly strong performance during the heaviest day of the series when winds reached 22 knots and she scored three fifth place finishes.

The series was used by many of the nine countries as a training event for the North American Youth Olympic Games Qualifier to be sailed in Cayman Islands in March. Other YOG qualifiers are set to take place in Africa, Thailand, Brazil, Italy and Australia. The final qualification event will be the 2010 Byte CII World Championship, held in Cannes, France next April.

Tom Burton (AUS) and Alison Young (GBR) hit the right note in the Laser and Laser Radial at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as they took out the top honours and qualification spots to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final.

It was double Australian gold in the Paralympic classes. Matt Bugg (AUS) came out on top in the 2.4mR whilst London 2012 Paralympic SKUD18 gold medallists Dan Fitzgibbon and Liesl Tesch (AUS) were triumphant in the two person keelboat.

Lithuania's Juozas Bernotas came out on top in the Men's RS:X whilst Russia's Stefania Elfutina was triumphant in the Women's RS:X. Both sailors claim the first Abu Dhabi ISAF Sailing World Cup Final spots whilst Jock Calvert (AUS) and Joanna Sterling (AUS) picked up the Oceanic spots for the Emirati finale.

There was some fast paced action in the 49er and 49erFX Medal Races at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne as Nathan Outteridge & Iain Jensen (AUS) and Maia & Ragna Agerup (NOR) claimed the honours and Abu Dhabi final spots.

A tight group of five young Papua New Guinean (PNG) Laser sailors are stepping up their 2015 Pacific Games competition program using this week's ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne. PNG is one of 33 countries represented at the important Oceanic event, the largest Olympic sailing regatta in the southern hemisphere.

Melbourne, Australia will host the final Rio 2016 Paralympic Games qualification regatta in 2015. With just under one year until the event, the 2015 IFDS Worlds was launched at ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne.

ISAF Sailing World Cup Melbourne kick starts the journey to the 2015 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates with qualification spots and top ranking points available in the Australian city.

Four boats in the Volvo Ocean Race celebrated rounding the venerated landmark of Cape Horn on Monday, a pleasure cruelly denied Dongfeng Race Team (Charles Caudrelier/FRA) after the Chinese boat's mast was broken early in a dramatic day on Leg 5.

The wind played dirty tricks all day in Palma on the sailors and race committees who had to juggle with big shifts and different pressure. From 4 to 20 knots, and reaching 40 in some gusts, the wind turned around the bay playing with everybody's nerves.

Ghosting across the line in the inky blackness of a Mediterranean spring night, finally slicing through the finish line set on the very waters where some 40 odd years ago he cut his teeth as a young, aspiring sailor harbouring great dreams, at 01:47:00hrs local time Guillermo Altadill and his talented, ever reliable Chilean co-skipper Jose Muñoz secured second placed in this third edition of the Barcelona World Race, the round the world race for two crew which left the Catalan capital on December 31st 2014.

Algoa Bay brought lighter conditions on Sunday, and after a postponement waiting for the wind to settle, the race got underway in 7 knots of breeze from the south-east. Ted Conrads and Brian Haines from the USA were the pathfinders, and opened up the gate for the fleet as they sailed out to the right-hand side of the course.